O' my sweet Highland Mary. How sweetly bloom'd the gay green birk? How rich the hawthorn's blossom! As underneath their fragrant shade, I clasped her to my bosom! The golden hours on angel wings, Flew o'er me and my dearie; For dear to me as light and... Country life [poems]. - Pàgina 125per Country life - 1873 - 147 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| England - 1835 - 794 pàgines
...Flew o'er me and my dearie ; For dear to me, as light and life, Was my sweet Highland Mary ! Wi' mony a vow, and lock'd embrace, Our parting was fu' tender;...pledging aft to meet again ; We tore oursels asunder l But ob ! fell death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early ! — Now green's the sod, and... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1835 - 336 pàgines
...Flew o'er me and my dearie ; For dear to me, as light and life, Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi' mony a vow and lock'd embrace, Our parting was fu' tender, And, pledging aft to meet again, We tore ourselves asunder ; But oh ! fell death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early ! Now green's... | |
| 1835 - 320 pàgines
...Flew o'er me and my dearie; For dear to me as light and life, Was my sweet Highland Mary. * Wi' mony a vow and lock'd embrace, Our parting was fu' tender; And pledging aft to meet again, We tore ourselves assunder. But 0! fell death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early; Now green's... | |
| Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 628 pàgines
...Flew o'er me and my dearie ; or dear to me, as light and life, Was my sweet Highland Mary. Vi' monie a vow and lock'd embrace, Our parting was fu' tender ; And, pledging aft to meet again, We tore ourselves asunder : But, oh ! fell death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early ! iow green's... | |
| John Aikin - 1838 - 796 pàgines
...Flew o'er me and my dearie j For dear to me, as light and life, Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi' mony } 1 О ! fell death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early ! Now green's the sod, and cauld's... | |
| John Aikin - 1838 - 750 pàgines
...Flew o'er me and my dearie; For dear to me, as light and life, Was my sweet Higbland Mary. Wi' mony a vow, and lock'd embrace, Our parting was fu' tender;...pledging aft to meet again, We tore oursels asunder ; But O! fell death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early ! Now green's the sod, and cauld's the... | |
| Robert Burns - 1839 - 374 pàgines
...Anderson presented a volume to each of her two daughters ; but on the approaching marriage of Wi' mony a vow, and lock'd embrace, Our parting was fu' tender...and cauld's the clay, That wraps my Highland Mary ! these two females sometime afterwards, her eldest son, William Anderson, a mason in Renton, prevailed... | |
| Robert Burns - 1839 - 334 pàgines
...Flew o'er me and my dearie ; For dear to me, as light and life, Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi" monie a vow, and lock'd embrace, Our parting was fu' tender...and cauld's the clay, That wraps my Highland Mary ! 0 pale, pale now, those rosy lips, I aft hae kiss'd sae fondly ! And closed for aye the sparkling... | |
| 1839 - 630 pàgines
...dearie, For dear to me, as light and life, Was my sweet Highland Мягу! \Vi' mony a vow and locked embrace, Our parting was fu* tender; And, pledging...oh! fell death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower säe early! Now green fs the end, and cnuld's the clay, That wraps my Highland Mary! VOL. xii, —... | |
| 1839 - 892 pàgines
...lock'd embraot Our parting was fu' tender ; And pledging oft to meet again We tore ourselves ;. -under : But oh ! fell death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early ! Now green s the sod, and cauld i the clay That wraps my Highland Mary. " O pale, pale now, those rosy lips,... | |
| |